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12 Kreuzer - Ferdinand II Large Arms
| Issuer | Hagenau, City of |
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| Year | 1625-1626 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1625 - - 71,000 1626 - - |
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Hagenau's 12 Kreuzer issues of 1625–26 fall squarely within the catastrophic first decade of the Thirty Years' War. The city, an Imperial free town in Alsace, was under mounting military and financial pressure as Catholic League and Imperial forces moved through the region. Emergency municipal coinages of this type were partly a practical response to currency shortages as hoarding accelerated and established minting networks broke down across the Holy Roman Empire.
The "Large Arms" designation distinguishes this type from related Hagenau issues of the same period — a die classification, not a size description, reflecting the variant heraldic treatment recorded by Ebner & Lotter.